What Facebook permissions are required to view photos that your friends are tagged in?

Question

It seems that the answer is the friends_photos permission, see these answers

• How to retrieve facebook user's friends albums information with facebook php sdk
• Facebook Graph API: Permissions to Friends Photos

However, there is no reference to it in the documentation. I fear it may have been removed? Can anyone confirm it is still possible to get friends photos?

Answer 1

If you created the app after 4/30/2014 you have only access to v2.0 of the API and you can not access any friends data

Answer 2

There is limited access to friend's timeline, photos and videos in v2 API.

UserA can see the timeline, photos and videos of UserB if and only if,

• They are friends
• Both granted user_friends permission to your application and
• UserB also grants the user_posts, user_photos and user_videos permissions to your application.

The following steps can be used to test the same in the graph API explorer.

1. using access token of UserA call me/friends
2. get id of UserB from response
3. call [UserB-id]/albums
4. get album id
5. call [album-id]/photos